List of people from Scottsdale, Arizona

This is a list of notable past and present residents of the U.S. city of Scottsdale, Arizona.

Art

 * Kevin Geary (born 1952) – English portrait and abstract artist
 * Bil Keane - Cartoonist
 * Rotraut Klein-Moquay - Visual artist
 * Reg Manning - Editorial Cartoonist
 * Dale Messick - Cartoonist

Athletics

 * Max Aaron (born 1992) – 2013 National Champion at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships
 * Chance Adams (born 1994) - professional baseball player
 * Muhammad Ali – heavyweight champion boxer
 * Brian Bannister – professional baseball pitcher
 * Charles Barkley (born 1963) – basketball player for Philadelphia 76ers, Phoenix Suns, and Houston Rockets, also TV commentator
 * Chad Beyer – professional cyclist
 * Amanda Blumenherst (born 1986) – professional golfer
 * Pat Burrell – professional baseball player
 * Jocko Conlan, Hall of Fame baseball umpire
 * Danny Curzon – pairs figure skater
 * Ike Davis (born 1987) - professional baseball player for New York Mets
 * Robelyn Garcia – professional basketball player, professor
 * Luis Gonzalez – professional baseball player
 * Mark Grace – professional baseball player
 * Chelsi Guillen – pairs figure skater
 * Max Homa (born 1990) – professional golfer on the PGA Tour
 * Helen Hull Jacobs – champion tennis player
 * Ruth Jessen – professional golfer
 * Jakob Junis (born 1992) - baseball pitcher for the San Francisco Giants
 * Paul Konerko – professional baseball player
 * Olga Korbut - Olympic gymnast
 * Tom Lehman – professional golfer
 * Meadowlark Lemon – basketball player for the Harlem Globetrotters
 * Kevin Long – professional baseball coach
 * Auston Matthews – professional ice hockey player
 * Jim Palmer – professional baseball pitcher, member MLB Hall of Fame
 * Mike Pollak – professional football player
 * Jeremy Roenick – professional hockey player
 * Matisse Thybulle (born 1997) - professional basketball player
 * Brady Tkachuk – professional hockey player
 * Matthew Tkachuk – professional hockey player
 * Jeremy Wolf (born 1993) - American-Israeli baseball player on the Israel National Baseball Team
 * Jesse Ylönen – professional hockey player

Entertainment

 * Erika Alexander – actress
 * Rex Allen – actor, singer and songwriter
 * Jules Asner – actress, model
 * Brie Bella - wrestling WWE
 * Nikki Bella - wrestling WWE
 * Sandra Bernhard – actress, comedian
 * Drew Binsky - travel vlogger and blogger
 * Lynda Carter – actress, title role on Wonder Woman
 * Joan Ganz Cooney – producer, founder of Children's Television Workshop
 * Brady Corbet – actor
 * Andy Devine – actor
 * Barbara Eden – actress
 * Dennis Farina – actor
 * Kade Gottlieb – also known as Gottmik, drag queen, television personality, Rupaul's Drag Race
 * Gregg Groothuis – professional wrestler
 * Sammi Hanratty – actress
 * Barbara Harris – actress
 * Dale Hellestrae – professional football player
 * Catherine Hicks – actress
 * Kalani Hilliker – dancer, reality television personality, Dance Moms, Abby's Ultimate Dance Competition
 * Earl Hindman – actor
 * Jenna Jameson – porn star
 * Brad Johnson – actor, model
 * Marilyn Kagan - actress, psychotherapist
 * Tanner Maguire – actor
 * Frankie Muniz – actor
 * Tyler Niknam – Twitch streamer
 * David Spade – actor
 * Steven Spielberg – Oscar-winning film director
 * Emma Stone – Oscar-winning actress
 * Dick Van Dyke – actor, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Mary Poppins
 * Sofia Wylie – actress, singer, and dancer, Andi Mack
 * Ismael Khalid — influencer and streamer

Music

 * Billy Preston - singer (died in Scottsdale)
 * Dierks Bentley – singer
 * David Ellefson – musician
 * Joseph Adam Jonas – singer, part of the Jonas Brothers
 * Nils Lofgren – musician, songwriter
 * Bret Michaels – singer/songwriter, musician, member of Poison
 * Stevie Nicks – singer
 * Jerry Riopelle – musician, record producer
 * The Summer Set – pop rock band
 * Chronic Future – alternative rock band

Literature

 * Ernestine Gilbreth Carey - author
 * Diana Gabaldon – author of the Outlander series
 * Clarence Budington Kelland - author
 * Elisabeth Kübler-Ross – author
 * Stephenie Meyer – author of the Twilight series
 * Barbara Park – author of children's books
 * Glendon Swarthout - author

Politics

 * Cesar Estrada Chavez – political activist
 * Herb Drinkwater – Mayor of Scottsdale from 1980 to 1996
 * Joe Foss – leading Marine fighter ace in World War II, Governor of South Dakota, first commissioner of the American Football League
 * Barry Goldwater – former U.S. Senator and 1964 presidential candidate
 * G. Gordon Liddy – Watergate Scandal, chief operationist
 * John McCain – former U.S. Senator, 2000 and 2008 presidential candidate
 * Sandra Day O'Connor – U.S. Supreme Court Justice
 * Winfield Scott – Legislator, Chaplain, and Town namesake

Miscellaneous

 * Ron Evans – astronaut
 * Hadas Gold (born 1988) – media and business reporter
 * Jacob Gold – financial planner
 * Elisabeth Kubler-Ross - Psychiatrist, Pioneer in near-death studies
 * Frank Luke – fighter ace of World War I
 * Bob Parsons – entrepreneur, founder of Go Daddy
 * Elliott Roosevelt - Brigadier General, son of FDR
 * Frank Lloyd Wright – architect